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News: September 2008
Direct Payments v TUPE
Information sheet from Keely's Solicitors.
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User-led services – Can the council deliver?
Public Service
26 September 2008
Mo Baines talks about the personalisation agenda and what it will mean for the public sector.
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Alarm raised over cost-cutting methods
Community Care
25 September 2008
Gary Fitzgerald has says he’s concerned with the speed at which personalisation is to be implemented.
Care Quality Commission
The Telegraph
18 September 2008
According to the Baroness Young of Old Scone, when the new Care Quality Commission comes into play next year the ‘postcode lottery’ will get worse.
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In Control arrives in Australia
Community Care17 September 2008
Caroline Tomlinson one of the pioneers behind individual budgets has taken In Control to Australia.
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The lives of carers
The Observer14 September 2008
It was recently announced that carers save the taxpayers £87m per year, however most carers are living in practical poverty with little or no support.
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Brokerage
Community Care10 September 2008
An article on brokers, independent support brokers, personal brokers and brokerage.
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1.5 million people let down by carers
PRNewswire5 September 2008
Government and LD organisations are ‘failing’ to give people with learning disabilities a voice and options on personalisation.
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